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The Civil Contract of Photography by Ariella Azoulay
RRP: $28.38$25.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951894Author Ariella AzoulayFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 44mm -
Free Will by Mark Balaguer
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262525794Author Mark BalaguerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 11mm -
Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land by Norman Wirzba
RRP: $38.69$33.53This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today's most pressing social and ecological concerns. For thousands of years most human beings drew their daily living from, and made sense of their lives in... -
The Routledge Handbook of Dehumanization by Maria Kronfeldner 9780367637132
RRP: $56.75$50.10A striking feature of atrocities, as seen in genocides, civil wars, or violence against certain racial and ethnic groups, is the attempt to dehumanize - to deny and strip human beings of their humanity. Yet the very nature of dehumanization remains... -
On Gaslighting by Kate Abramson 9780691249384
RRP: $25.80$22.12A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting“Gaslighting” is suddenly in everyone’s vocabulary. It’s written about, talked about, tweeted about, even sung about (in “Gaslighting” by The Chicks). It’s become shorthand for being... -
Philebus by Plato
RRP: $16.76$11.73Taking the form of a discussion between the hedonist Philebus, his naive disciple Protarchus and Socrates, Philebus is a compelling consideration of the popular belief that pleasure is the greatest attainable good. Here, Socrates speculates on the... -
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: $14.18$10.02Michael Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? invites readers of all ages and political persuasions on a journey of moral reflection, and shows how reasoned debate can illuminate our lives.Is it always wrong to lie?Should there be limits to... -
Care Ethics and Social Structures in Medicine by Ruth E. Groenhout
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book examines the central structures in medicine-medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority-from the perspective of an ethics of care. The author analyzes each of these structures in detail before considering the... -
101 Ethical Dilemmas by Martin Cohen 9780415404006
RRP: $37.40$32.37Will meat eaters get into heaven? Do trees have rights? Is it ever right to design a baby? What would you do? Would you always do the right thing? Is there a right thing? In this second edition of his thought-provoking and highly engaging introduction to... -
Kant: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself by Robert Wicks
RRP: $19.34$12.64Written by Robert Wicks, a recognised Kant specialist who teaches at the University of Auckland, Kant: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to... -
Rumours of a Better Country: Searching for trust and community in a time of moral outrage by Marsh Moyle 9781789744675
RRP: $25.79$18.42Hyper-individualism and consumerism are failing to satisfy our hunger for meaning. We face an identity crisis in which real community is increasingly hard to find. The culture wars have been painful and polarising and have proved a poor way to agree any... -
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition by Alasdair MacIntyre
RRP: $38.69$33.53When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it "a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the... -
Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates
RRP: $16.76$11.73This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb... -
Green Philosophy: How to think seriously about the planet by Roger Scruton
RRP: $19.34$12.64The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources. In Green Philosophy,... -
In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility by Costica Bradatan 9780674970472
RRP: $32.19$23.31Squarely challenging a culture obsessed with success, an acclaimed philosopher argues that failure is vital to a life well lived, curing us of arrogance and self-deception and engendering humility instead.Our obsession with success is hard to overlook... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
RRP: $14.18$10.02Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful figure' ObserverSoren Kierkegaard, one of the most... -
Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction by Britt Wray 9781771644723
RRP: $16.76$11.13NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New Yorker and Science News What happens when you try to recreate a woolly mammoth-fascinating science, or conservation catastrophe? Jurassic Park meets The Sixth Extinction in Rise of the Necrofauna, a... -
Well-Being by Ben Bradley 9780745662732
RRP: $19.34$17.52The concept of well-being plays a central role in moral and political theory. Policies and actions are justified or criticized on the grounds that they make people better or worse off. But is there really such a thing as well-being, and if so, what is... -
Grief: A Philosophical Guide by Michael Cholbi
RRP: $25.80$20.05An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief-and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us growExperiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us-as universal as it is painful-is central to the human condition... -
Rational Powers in Action: Instrumental Rationality and Extended Agency by Sergio Tenenbaum 9780198889564
RRP: $25.79$23.49Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance. Rational Powers in Action locates these features of the human condition at the heart of a new theory of instrumental rationality. Where many theories of rational... -
Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility by Sean Fleming
RRP: $45.15$35.10New perspectives on the role of collective responsibility in modern politicsStates are commonly blamed for wars, called on to apologize, held liable for debts and reparations, bound by treaties, and punished with sanctions. But what does it mean to hold... -
Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures by Dominic McIver Lopes 9780199230440
$50.93Looking at pictures, we see in them the scenes they depict, and any value they have springs from these experiences of seeing-in. Sight and Sensibility presents the first detailed and comprehensive theory of evaluating pictures. Dominic Lopes confronts... -
On Obligations: De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $12.89$9.17On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring politicians. It explores the apparent tensions between honourable conduct and expediency in public... -
The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul by Anne Baring
RRP: $49.02$23.25The Dream of the Cosmos is the story of a multi-layered quest to understand the causes of human suffering and to reconnect with a deeper reality than the one we inhabit in this physical dimension of experience. It seeks to answer the questions: "Who are... -
Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power by Alastair McIntosh
RRP: $16.76$11.09It is easy to feel helpless in the face of the torrent of information about environmental catastrophes taking place all over the world. In this powerful and provocative book, Scottish writer and campaigner Alastair McIntosh shows how it is still possible... -
Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism by Alan S. Kahan 9780691191287
RRP: $49.02$37.98A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today's liberalsFreedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time: liberalism. In a pathbreaking reframing of the historical... -
Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $34.77$30.22TROUBLE WITH STRANGERS 'Written in Eagleton's very readable, clear and witty style, this book may achieve the unthinkable: bridging the gap between academic High Thought and popular philosophy manuals.'Slavoj Zi ek 'This is a fine book. It is hugely... -
Gorgias by Plato
RRP: $11.60$8.32The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value of... -
On What Matters: Volume One by Derek Parfit 9780199681037
RRP: $32.88$28.35On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of... -
Images of the Present Time by Alain Badiou
RRP: $38.70$29.44Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present." In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be... -
Just Jones: Sometimes a Thing Is Impossible . . . Until It Is Actually Done (A Noticer Book) by Andy Andrews 9780785226567
RRP: $23.21$20.34From New York Times bestselling author Andy Andrews comes the return of one of our favorite characters: Jones, the Noticer, whose wise stories have comforted and guided millions of readers. In this third volume of The Noticer series, navigate the hope... -
Great Minds on Small Things: The Philosophers' Guide to Everyday Life by Matthew Qvortrup 9780715654965
RRP: $16.76$11.13Three centuries ago, Voltaire published his Dictionnaire philosophique, taking in such idiosyncratic topics as adultery, mountains, nakedness, and others besides. In 1957, another French philosopher of more recent vintage, Roland Barthes, mused in his... -
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
RRP: $41.28$24.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593793657Author David BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Ethics 101: From Altruism and Utilitarianism to Bioethics and Political Ethics, an Exploration of the Concepts of Right and Wrong by Brian Boone 9781507204931
RRP: $16.76$14.54Explore the mysteries of morality and the concept of right and wrong with this accessible, engaging guide featuring basic facts along with an overview of modern-day issues ranging from business ethics and bioethics to political and social ethics.Ethics... -
The Nicomachean Ethics: Vol 19 by Aristotle
RRP: $32.19$29.57Antiquity's most influential account of life's Supreme Good.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347);... -
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Jonathan Sacks 9781473617315
RRP: $25.80$17.74We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state on the other. The markets have brought wealth to many, and the state has done much to contain the worst excesses of... -
How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small by M. D. Usher 9780691240435
RRP: $19.34$15.31An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals-and our vital relationships with themHow to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we... -
Self and Other: Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy, and Shame by Dan Zahavi 9780198776673
RRP: $35.46$31.84Can you be a self on your own or only together with others? Is selfhood a built-in feature of experience or rather socially constructed? How do we at all come to understand others? Does empathy amount to and allow for a distinct experiential acquaintance... -
Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt 9780156588904
RRP: $25.79$18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156588904Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 273g -
Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $45.15$38.66The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of correspondence. Letters on Ethics includes vivid descriptions of town and country life in Nero's Italy,...